33 records matched your query       

Author:

Klepp, Susan E.

Title:

Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 / Susan E. Klepp.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

vi, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Birth control--United States--History--18th century.
Women--United States--Social conditions--18th century.
United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
Contraception--history--United States.
Birth Rate--United States.
Family Characteristics--United States.
History, 18th Century--United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
Social Conditions--history--United States.
Women's Rights--history--United States.

Notes:

"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction. first to fall: fertility, American women, and revolution -- Starting, spacing, and stopping: the statistics of birth and family size -- Old ways and new -- Women's words -- Beauty and the bestial: images of women -- Potions, pills, and jumping ropes: the technology of birth control -- Increase and multiply: embarrassed men and public order -- Reluctant revolutionaries -- Conclusion. fertility and the feminine in early America.

ISBN:

0807859923 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807859926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807833223 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807833223 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317929508

LCCN:

2009024332

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)